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What is Kanban?

Kanban is a way for teams and organizations to visualize work, identify and eliminate bottlenecks and achieve dramatic operational improvements.

How do you use Kanban in a Fixed Duration/ Fixed Cost Project?

This is a common dilemma for teams wanting to use Kanban for ‘fixed price, fixed cost” projects. On the one hand, you have a business demand to commit up-front to a timeline and scope (and cost) to deliver a product;

10 Factors to Consider for your Kanban Board Design

While starting with Kanban may appear simple enough – after all, what can be simpler than ‘start with what you have’?! – modeling your first Kanban board does require some thinking and planning as it depends on a number of factors. Learn how do you design your first Kanban board.

The Official Kanban Guide

This guide is intended for people who are new to Kanban and interested in learning about the basics of the method. Our hope is that this guide provides an easy entry into the vast Kanban body of knowledge.

Getting Started with Kanban

There is an enormous amount of resources available on the Internet and some great books that have been written up on Kanban.

Due Dates in Kanban Systems

Many teams adopting Kanban come from Agile background. Agile thinking has discouraged the use of Due Dates. Due Dates breed undesirable behavior. Focus on Due Dates results in teams working under significant pressure. Quite often, that translates into short cuts

Handling ticket Issues With Kanban

David J Anderson’s book on Kanban shows us that a way to handle ticket issues is by attaching a color tag to a ticket to make it visible. An issue is a ticket-related event that becomes an impediment to its

What is a Kanban Board?

A Kanban board is a tool used by teams that use the Kanban method for continuous improvement in their work and processes.

Scrum vs Kanban

Scrumban is an evolution of Scrum that helps you improve your Scrum processes by applying Kanban principles.

Kanban Project Management

Most projects and business activity have a ‘flow’ or a ‘process’ (comprising steps or phases) that is used to produce the end-product or service.

Wait! Is Kanban RIGHT for you?

While Kanban is certainly “easy” to get started with, it has a lot to it that needs to be understood and adopted in a gradual manner, in order to truly benefit from it.

Kanban Metrics

Kanban system provides organizations simple but powerful metrics that can be directly correlated to business benefits.

Portfolio Kanban

Whether it is IT or Business in a corporation, a consulting company, a hi-tech product company, a legal firm, a marketing/ advertising agency.

Kanban for DevOps

To some, DevOps is a culture, to others it’s a software development methodology on its own. Here’s our take on the discussion.

Personal Kanban

Personal Kanban is a simplification of the original Kanban method . Learn how it helps to improve your productivity in everyday lives.

Who can use SwiftKanban?

Whether you are a software or an IT/ Ops team, a Project Manager/ team or a business function such as HR, sales, marketing, procurement.

The Best of Kanban Tools – SwiftKanban

Kanban is all about visualization and SwiftKanban does this best by providing a powerful WYSIWYG board editor that makes modelling.

Kanban Glossary

This is the Glossary page of commonly used Kanban terms.

Why use SwiftKanban?

SwiftKanban helps teams during the early Kanban adoption phase as well as during the phase of scaling when distributed teams need to be engaged.

How Granular should my (Personal) Kanban Board be?

This question comes up not only in Personal Kanban but also for teams and enterprise (portfolio) kanban boards as well. It is a great question – and quite often tricky to answer!

What should be the level of work breakdown